Grendel
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Grendel in the Old English epic poem
Beowulf, the water monster who nightly attacks Heorot, the hall built by Hrothgar, king of Denmark, and each night kills and eats one of Hrothgar's thanes. Grendel is of the race of
Cain, living away from humankind but drawn by savagery and greed to the hall where the king's men feast.
He ravages Heorot over many years, but is mortally wounded in his fight with the hero
Beowulf and his severed arm nailed up as a trophy. Grendel's mother then comes to Heorot to avenge her son; she kills Hrothgar's most valued thane, but is in her turn destroyed by Beowulf in her underwater lair.
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Wend jury weighs two sides of victim
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 9/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...yearold foolishly took in Jennifer L. Wend and gave her gifts, drugs and cash. He...his remains. Then there was the Adamson Wend's attorneys talked about as they finished...methamphetamine-crazed man who wanted to kill Wend, the 36-year-old woman in the next...
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Photos: Wend Magazine Raises $1000 for World Bicycle Relief at Benefit Party.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 7/10/2009; 674 words
; Last Friday June 12th, 2009 Wend Magazine hosted its Volume 4 Issue 1 release...and was featured in the current issue of Wend's Platform department, a section that...environmental activists speak directly to Wend readers. To view the Multimedia News Release...
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Photos: Wend Magazine Raises $1000 For World Bicycle Relief at Benefit Party.
PR Newswire; 6/23/2009; 582 words
; ...PRNewswire/ -- Last Friday June 12th, 2009 Wend Magazine hosted its Volume 4 Issue 1 release...and was featured in the current issue of Wend's Platform department, a section that...environmental activists speak directly to Wend readers. To view the Multimedia News Release...
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Using a watershed nutrient dynamics model, WEND, to address watershed-scale nutrient management challenges.
Magazine article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Watershed Ecosystem Nutrient Dynamics (WEND) model tracks watershed P balances over...in Vermont is a case watershed in which WEND has been used to evaluate the impacts of...significantly reduced. This suggests that the WEND model could be adopted as an NRCS tool...
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 "South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)")
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Wend breezes in Hollywood Wildcat.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 4/30/2005; 700+ words
; ...MIAMI _ The debut of Claiborne Farm's Wend across Aqueduct's main track in November...Pulpit out of the Topsider mare Thread, Wend began racing late in her 3-year-old...After finishing seventh in her debut, Wend broke her maiden Jan. 2 across Tampa...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Wend's the way to go on a tricky Saturday.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 3/4/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the route to follow this afternoon, when Wend's Day is strongly fancied to beat shorter...pair well clear) at the Yorkshire track. Wend's Day could well be better than he showed...card after complaining of back problems. Wend's Day certainly looked to be going very...
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FLORENCE WEND, 72.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/19/1993; 512 words
; Florence S. Wend, 72, of Broadway died Sunday in the University...lifelong Capital Region resident. Mrs. Wend was a clerk-typist for Key Trust Co...and a former Girl Scout leader. Mrs. Wend was a communicant of St. Mary's Roman...
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WEND, JOSEPH G.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/8/2001; 447 words
; RENSSELAER -- Joseph G. Wend, 90, of Renwyck Apts., died April...Greene of Clifton Park; one son, William Wend of Eugene, OR; a sister, Emily Merriman...was predeceased by his wife, Florence Wend and sister, Marion Walsh.Relatives...
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WEnD Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Thune
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...R-South Dakota, has introduced the WEnD Act (S. 1291), legislation that would...full-text of the legislation follows:WEnD ActS. 1291To amend the Internal Revenue...Energy Development Act of 2007' or the `WEnD Act'.SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION...
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Flexible curved wall.(newslines)(Eric Wend wins award for his flexx-movable wall)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Urethanes Technology; 12/1/2006; 550 words
; The sole student prize winner was Eric Wend, who has developed a flexible sound...partitions, in noisy call centres for example. Wend devised the easily movable, versatile...partitions, while being highly flexible, Wend said. Wend's 'Flexx-movable wall...
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Wends
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wends or Sorbs, Slavic people (numbering about...cultural centers. In the Middle Ages the term Wends was applied by the Germans to all the Slavs...German expansion. A crusade against the pagan Wends was launched in 1147 under the leadership...
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wend
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
wend / wend / • v. [ intr. ] ( wend one's way ) go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route: they wended their way across the city.
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Wend
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
Wend / wend / • n. another term for Sorb .
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Kaboré, Jean-Marie Gaston
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Use of New Energy in Rural Areas ) 1982 Wend Kuuni (God's Gift ) 1986 Propos sur...Winter 1992. Andrade-Watkins, Claire, "Wend Kuuni," in American Historical Review...Magdeleine, "The Missing Narrative in Wend Kuuni," in African Cinema: Postcolonial...
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Henry I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...against the incursions of the Danes, the Wends, and the Magyars. Henry was able to halt the Danes and Wends and, through the capture of a Magyar chieftain...The lands that had been taken from the Wends were distributed in the form of fiefs among...
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